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one poem a day for a year. there might be lag in posting but never in writing.

who loves the sun?

Dead Slut

I was wondering when Shawn Foree was going to comment on Jay Reatard dying. Today on his blog he a link to a song called Stupid Friend. It sounds like beautiful funeral music. Get the song here.

Current Ghosts

This is who I hung out with today.


1st self portrait 0f 10


downtown

mexican candy

home

light snow

aquarium drunkard show at Oragami Vinyl

grey river


2009 in a nutshell.


walls

Best Coast @ the Echoplex

walls.

Nathan Williams @ the Echoplex

01 January 2010

In the new year

Projects for 10:

-Go to at least one show a month and write about it; interview jerks attending, stuff like that. I went to a lot of really great show in 09: Wavves at the Echoplex thanks to Aquarium Drunkard (who put on a pretty good party at Origami Vinyl in Dec). ...And you will know us by the trail of dead at the Music Box AND Cold Cave at the Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock,  thanks to losanjealous plus Ponytail at the Echo, a couple of Vice parties and assorted revelry. The point is I want to do more of that.

-Write something everyday for a year. This is going to be hard but really look forward to 365 consecutive days of writing. 

-wear only imitation designer clothes. By February I want to go around rocking Guci loafers, Dulce & Cabana jeans, a Le Cost shirt and Luis Vitoon jacket. Marvelous!

I have my doubts about you, 2010; prove me wrong.

Currently listening to: Pearl Harbor

Looks like the first show of 2010 is going to be Abe Vigoda and Silk Flowers at the Smell on 28 Jan. See you there?

13 December 2009

Music Go Music

Music Go Music - Live on Face Time - Light of Love from music go music on Vimeo.

YES! Finally the video for my favourite Music Go Music song! I first heard this song from Stereogum, like, a loooooong time ago. They had a video for quite a few of their songs, all of which consist of the band performing on the show Face Time, which we are all too young to remember. Despite what MGM would have us think, they are are a side project of David and Meredith Metcalf of Bodies of Water and assorted blonde girls and a bass player that looks like Aaron Behrens (it's not him though). These video's are all awesome, like the later BoW videos but less plot driven. The aesthetic is amazing as are all the gross 70's clothes.  The lead guitar player can fucking shred! According to MGM's MySpace the band's 3 members are Gala Bell (Meredith), Kamer Maza (David) and TORG, who I'm guessing is the guitar player. In any case, this video and the rest are available on the band's long awaited (by me anyway) website. Now if they will only start playing shows...

Music Go Music's debut album is out via Secretly Canadian (Bodies of Water's label as well)

Oh yeah, remember when Meredith was on that Domino's commercial? I guess that's how they paid for all those bell bottoms.

07 November 2009

2001 state of Mind

I Can't Help It from The Breeders on Vimeo.

I've been thinking about 2001 a lot lately so it's kind of appropriate that while i was wandering around the Breeders site I found this video of the Deal's covering Hank Williams (the deals would be a good band name, no?). I first heard this song when I was making a playlist of covers for the Dr. Awesome and Sarah Show in SDSU college DJ days (this is Dr Awesome and your listening to KCR). I typed in covers to songspy, or whatever mp3 site i used to use back in the antediluvian days of free music downloading and i found so many great covers; among my favourite still are Foo Fighters covering Carry on My Wayward Son and Sonic Youth doing Moist Vagina (Kim Gordon sounds SO much like Kurt Cobain!) and Nirvana doing. I love covers, as most people know. During the brief but intense life of the Mix Tape club i was unfairly disqualified from the covers round for submitting a tape with over 50 songs on it.
Anyway, imagine 18 year old me, fresh from the tide pool of Los Angeles and treading water in the slutty shark infested deep of San Diego. I had never been in the kind of love the song talks about and probably liked it for the same reason everyone likes breeders songs: the crazy harmonies that can be achieved when two people who sound exactly alike sing together. OF course when i rediscovered this song a few years later (think 2003ish) it hit a disturbingly close resonance for me. I had all but forgotten about it until today and it's as great as ever. I remember playing it a lot on the show (i always got in trouble for playing songs over and over) and one time i coupled it with this great Tom Waits song, also about a love i couldn't understand at the time, when my biggest romantic concerns were French exchange students (hi Suzel) and being a substitute boyfriend (sex only) for lonely girls. I think they go pretty well together. For not understanding these songs at the time, they both featured a pretty big in my musical history.


Tom Waits I hope that i don´t fall in love with yo… - MyVideo

PS: While neither Tom or the Breeders made in on my I Heart 2001 mix (though the Amps did) I was way into both at the time. I remember Mitsi and Christine Lam talking about Swordfishtrombones in Mr Acosta's creative writing class. Then I saw Fight Club, bought Bone Machine and was, like, "Oooooh".

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